Spam (continued...)
I bought Norton Internet Security the other day, and I've been running it on my computer. It seems to have made a huge difference in that now I'm only seeing very few spam messages with the rest going into a spam folder that Norton created. The only problem so far seems to be that Norton tends to call things spam that aren't really spam, so I'm trying to "train" the program, but it continues to catch the same messages even after I inform it to NOT catch those types of messages.

One of the big problems I've found so far, and this is a warning to anyone that ends up buying this program, is that the firewall it creates is so conclusive that it shuts out everything, and it's almost impossible to stop it. An example is that I play Star Wars Galaxies, an online game. But when I try to sign onto the game, Norton warns me that my computer is trying to access the internet and then asks me if I should. I say yes, contact the internet. Then the screen goes into the welcoming messages for the game, and then there are further accesses to the internet through that process where Norton throws a fit and doesn't let it through, but then I'm stuck in the welcoming screens (unable to get out at all without rebooting my computer) so there's no way to tell Norton "Hey, stupid program, say yes here!" The only way I've been able to work around this is to just turn off firewall, not exactly the greatest way to do it, but Norton's "help" says that I should click "yes" in a window that never actually shows up on the screen. Grrr.

Anyway, my further battles with spam....

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